The Note This Man Left One Mother Will Restore Your Faith In Civilization

Everyone who has children knows that they can be quite the handful on public transportation. And anyone who's ever shared a train car with a kid knows that some can make the trip nightmarish. That's why when a parent can get a child to act like a little angel, a wave of admiration sweeps upon passengers all around.

Or at least one passenger. Twenty-three-year-old mother Sammie Welch was cradling her sleeping 3-year-old son, Rylan, on her lap during a three-hour train ride from Birmingham to Plymouth in England on Thursday. Long journeys like this can often make children act completely frantic, but Welch kept her little guy occupied with games until he fell asleep, and moved him to her lap so that other people on the busy train could have a seat. It was around 7 P.M. when a stranger tapped her on the shoulder and asked her if she'd "dropped" five pounds (about $7.50) wrapped around a note that said the following:

She posted the note and story to her Facebook page, asking for people to help identify the man so she can thank him personally, and the post has since gone viral. It just goes to show that sometimes it only takes a little bit of manners to inspire an act of kindness, and only a little bit of kindness to restore everyone's faith in civilization.